Digital House-Hunting: Top Real Estate Tech Startups In India Dedicated To Find A Shelter For You.

Revolution of Food-tech startups, Retail startups and more emerged in India serving millions of people with feasible options. Everything is provided at our doorsteps with no need of wandering for our specific interests. With just search and click option, a list of answers are provided for every problem.

Recently, Real estate industry also kept its Bigfoot, using enhanced technologies like Machine Learning, AI and other powerful tools. Thus, it is not surprising to witness the trend in the digital market as everything is made feasible with one click sitting at home. Real estate became the current trending search among the working employees and students who are away from their hometown. The use of technology and real estate methods are seemingly changing the outlook of the real estate industry practices.

Here are the “Top 10 Real-tech” startups in India to explore where one can probe into for finding a new house.

1.CoLive

Colive is a technology-powered network of branded serviced homes offers home rentals, PGs located near educational institutions and workplaces. The company is founded in 2016 by Sundari Rangarajan based in Bengaluru.

The company in total raised $2.8M in funding led by Ncubate capital partners. Presently, CoLive operates in 3+ cities with more than 8000+ beds in its inventory.

2.Ghar360

Ghar360 is a cloud-based 3D augmented reality platform. The startup developed an idea to reinvent the interior shopping experience by digitizing the floor plan into an interactive walkable space. In simple, it is constructed to make customers have a virtual walk through a house and its interiors before purchasing it.

The startup is founded by Sanju Thomas and Ajesh Joy in 2012. The company raised a total of $20k in funding by TLabs.

3.Homigo

Homigo is a Bengaluru-based real-tech startup founded in the year 2015 by Nikunj Batheja, Aakash Verma, and Jatin Mitruka. It offers a fully-furnished home on a sharing basis to working professionals.

4.NestAway

NestAway is a home rental network attempts to provide better rental solutions with the help of design and technology. The company thrives on helping their customers to find, book, and move-in to a rental home of choice across Indian cities.

Founded in January 2015 by Amarendra Sahu, Deepak Dhar, Jitendra Jagadev, and Smruti Parida.

The company has raised a total of $94.2M in funding series by Tiger Global Management and Epiq Capital. On May 2017, NestAway acquired Zenify. Currently, the company caters over 35,000 tenants and 16,000 owners providing homes to over 7000 families across Indian cities namely Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Faridabad, Bengaluru, Noida, and Bengaluru.

5.NoBroker

NoBroker is a real estate search portal connecting flat owners and tenants directly with each other. The company does not charge any brokerage but have some service package charges ranging from Rs 999 to Rs 5,999. It is a customer-to-customer property platform uses AI and Machine Learning algorithms to gather all sort of data.

The Bengaluru-based startup is founded in March 2014 by Amit Kumar Agarwal, Akhil Gupta & Saurabh Garg. It raised a total of $20M fundings by SAIF Partners and BEENEXT. The company created an algorithm which identifies and expel brokers from the portal.

6.QuikrHomes

Quikr is a free classified advertising platform in India assists users to sell, rent, buy or discover anything across India.

The company is founded on Jan 12, 2008, by Pranay Chulet and Jiby Thomas located at Bengaluru. It operates in over 900 cities in India offering services like mobile phones, household goods, cars, real estate, jobs, education, and services. Quikr raised a total of $437.9M in funding series and has acquired 14 organizations.

7.ZiffyHomes

ZiffyHomes is a technology-driven home rental marketplace offers ready to move-in individual rooms to tenants with fully furnished rooms without any maintenance worry.

The company is founded in 2015 by Sanchal Ranjan and Saurabh Kumar. It raised a total amount of $433.7K funded by Y Combinator and Anirudh Agarwal. It acquired 2 organizations namely Nivaasa, a Gurugram-based home rental portal, and Fella Homes.

8.StayAbode

StayAbode is a Bengaluru-based startup founded in May 2016 by Varun Bhalla and Viral Chhajer. It thrives on providing a hassle-free abode to millennials looking for co-living spaces using technology as a source offering funky small private spaces.

The company raised an undisclosed amount in funding last year from a group of real estate investors.

9.Zipgrid

Zipgrid is a Mumbai-based startup founded in 2013 by Jaydip Popat and Kunal Gupta. The company with the help of technology-led ecosystem aims to deliver efficient management services for housing and gated communities driven with knowledge-based compliance.

The startup operates in Mumbai, Pune, Surat, and Ahmedabad providing 18000+ households to 180+ communities. Their software is fully supported by Google Cloud Platform allowing to build, deploy and more to ensure future-proof infrastructure and robust data and analytics.

The company raised a total of $700K with fundings by Jones Lang LaSalle and 1Crowd.

10.Zocalo

“Zocalo” is the Mexican term for a public square or plaza. The idea is to make it as the marketplace for an ideal property search. They utilize a systems-thinking methodology to anticipate and envision environmental, economic and social trends to develop a green, mixed-use and mixed-income where the public can afford the stay. The company also helps customers to move into new houses by partnering with movers and packers.

Uday Lakkar founded the company in 2014. It raised a total funding amount of Rs 1.4 crore from Xander Group.